Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-02-10
OHIO LEGISLATURE.

| FEB. 1-Senate-Bills passed: 81 B
Tor fire proof construction of the Lick
ing county chiidren's home;S B author.
iztng counties TO join in the construction
of National Guard armories; s B Lucas
county to build court house; II B for
the distribution of the Roster of Ohio
Soldiers.
Bills introduced: Courts of record to
appoint trustees fol non-residents;amend-
ing the Dow law, excluding the gallon
clause; regulating the incorporation of
secret and benevolent societies.
House-Bills introduced: For non-
partisan judges in township elections !;
recognizing the board of education at
Cincinnati.
Bills passed: H B giving probate
judges power to grant injunctions in
certain cases; H B regulating the man.
ner in which incorrigible girls may be
brought before the probate judge; Fl B
authorizing city councils to condemn
property for cemetery purposes; II B
fixingspenalty for carrying letters for
prisoners in the penitentiary and county
jalls.
FEB. 2-Senate-Bills passed: 81 B
giving the Governor power to remove
and appoint members of the Cincinnati
board of public affairs 81 B to print the
marginal notes in the statutes in non>
pareil; s B an officer to take the recog-
nizance of prisoner during term time
when the court is not actually in session
Bills introduced: Amending the law
relative to guardians and administra-
tors; paying fees to county treasurers
or collecting the Dow tax.
HOuse-Bills passed: ii B county
commissioners to levy threetenths of a
mill for the relief of INDECENT soldiers;
II B relative to the collection of the one
mile road tax.
Bills introduced: Secretary of state to
contract for the publication of the Su-
preme court reports; harmoniziOg the
homestead law.
FEB. 3-Senate BILLS passed: II B,
a bushel OF plums to be 55 pounds; S BI
dxing the time that exceptions must be
iled in courts at 80 days; S B, minority
counties to unite with majority counties
in the erection of National Guard arm
cries; the attorney general not to be al
member of the state board of health i
giving corporations due notice in case
of claims presented against them.
Resolution offered: For the appoint
meut of Cincinnati centennial exposi'
tion commission.
House-Bills passed: 81 B. increasing
the terms of constables to three years
H B defining who shall be present at ex-
ecutions in the penitentiary; 81 B amerd-t
ing the law extending the statutes of
limitations against married women; 81
B to prevent and punish usurpation of
Office and to reimburse the rightful
holder; 81 B regulating the manner in
which names for jurors shall be return+
ed by judges of election; H B defining
who shall pay judges and clerks of
elections. Bills introduced: exempting
farm lands in corporations from taxa
tioD, except for school and poor purpOs-
es; fixing the liability of stockholders
and bondholders in railroad reorganiza-
tioDs; making the state party in act
tions for divorce; defining how execu-
tors sales of real estate shall be con-
ducted; regulating contracts between
employer and employees; requiring guar
dians to give an additional bond when
they sell real estate; requiring deposit
before persons arrested under requisi.
tions shall be removed from the state.